Increasingly, Vanderbilt instructors are incorporating blogs into their course design. While blogs help students reflect on, comment about, and introduce new ideas to course material, they also require faculty to be strategic and intentional in their use.

During this conversation, two faculty members will show their course blogs and talk about how they use them to support course learning goals, the challenges course blogging presents, and the ways they deal with the challenges. This will also a unique opportunity for you to meet other instructors in the Vanderbilt blogging community and exchange ideas about best practices.

Panelists are:

• Allison Schachter, Assistant Professor, Program in Jewish Studies. Visit her blog Picture It: Literature, Photography, and Memory
• Humberto Garcia, Assistant Professor, English Department. Visit his blog William Blake and Enlightenment Media

Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, CFT Educational Technologist
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 16 4:10-5:30pm
This workshop will be held at the Center for Teaching
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Conversations on Teaching focus on emergent teaching and learning issues in an informal, discussion-based format.  These sessions provide members of the Vanderbilt teaching community a chance to share their teaching experiences and learn from each other. Conversations on Teaching typically begin with opening remarks from panelists and then open up to larger group discussions.

Fall 2012 Conversations on Teaching include:

• Going Public with Teaching Evaluations
• Feminist Pedagogies
• Teaching with Blogs – It’s Not About Sharing What You Had for Breakfast